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It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

Henri Bergson

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
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Acceptance Art Face Fact Generality Object Practical Reality Social Symbol
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
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Art Communication Direct Necessary Reality
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
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Believe Creativity Experience Life Moments Myself
It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
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Drive Emotion Forward Obstacle
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
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Correct Force Laughter Prevent
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
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Correct Humiliate Intention Laughter Neighbor Ourselves
We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
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Character Compensation Intelligence Man
To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
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Act Meaning Perception Talk
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
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Analyse Intuition Rest
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
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Past Preserve Reality
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
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Mystic Popular Religion Science
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Creation Expression Greatness Joy
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

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